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Isabella County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Founded
- 1831 (created), 1859 (organized)
- Named after
- Queen Isabella I of Castile
- Seat
- Mount Pleasant
- Largest city
- Mount Pleasant
- Total
- 578 sq mi (1,500 km )
- Land
- 573 sq mi (1,480 km )
- Water
- 5.0 sq mi (13 km ) 0.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 64,691
- Density
- 124/sq mi (48/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .isabellacounty .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Isabella County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 64,394. Its county seat is Mount Pleasant. The area was known as Ojibiway Besse, meaning "the place of the Ojibwa". Isabella County contains the Isabella Indian Reservation, on which members of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation live. The county is home to Central Michigan University.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isabella County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.